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Photo by JJ Ebro BLEU’S BROTHERS: Rappahannock brothers, Hector and Raul Rincon are regulars on the local polo scene.
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Great Meadow’s juniors have gone on to scholarships for perennial intercollegiate championship contenders, University of Virginia and Texas A&M. Among them, two sets of siblings: Adair and Fiona Seager, children of former club president Stephen Seager; and, Matt and Erin Dougherty, children of Delaplane resident Kevin Dougherty. They have provided an inspiration for the younger generation and their hardworking polo moms, who now see an opportunity to parlay horse-craziness into a college education.
Barnes said he has sixteen students, so far, signed up for the season. “Mostly young teens and a few in their forties, but I have a sixyear old and a sixty-year old, too,” he observed. He expects more will be signing up as the season heats up and the “Twilight Polo” program starts to draw families out to the club on balmy Saturday nights.
Tobin MacGregor, 36, a lobbyist for the aerospace industry, is a Georgetown resident, who comes out “Thursday afternoon to play polo until Sunday,” he said. He lives on a farm in Unison and telecommutes during the season. “I’ve been playing off and on since I took it up at Great Meadow years ago and finally decided I’ve got to get organized and do this thing properly,” he said.
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